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With Foreman on Broadway Five Actors' Views

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

Edna Nahshon
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On opening night of The Threepenny Opera at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, director Richard Foreman sent Elizabeth Wilson a note:

4-30-76

Dear Elizabeth,

You have beautifully redeemed Mrs. Peachum from the stock company character she's usually been & I thank you for your talent (which you can't help having) & your dedication to the show and my efforts: we come from different worlds but I feel we are together.

Love

Richard

The recent Lincoln Center production of The Threepenny Opera functioned not only as the meeting place of an avant-garde director and professionalactors, most of them strangers to the experimental theatre scene in New York; it also brought together two disparate theatre schools: one totally evolving around the actor's performance, the other regarding him as but another element of the production.

Type
Actors and Acting
Information
The Drama Review , Volume 20 , Issue 3: Actors and Acting , September 1976 , pp. 83 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © 1976 The Drama Review

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